STILES, Henry Reed, physician, born in New York city, 10 March, 1832. He is a kinsman of Ezra Stiles, and was educated at the University of the city of New York and at Williams. After graduation at the medical department of the University of the
city of New York and at the New York Ophthalmic hospital in 1855, he practised in New York city, in Galena, Illinois, and Toledo, Ohio. In 1856 he removed to Brooklyn, New York, and in 1857-'8, under the firm of Calkins and Stiles, published educational works and the "American Journal of
Education." In 1859-'63 he practised medicine in Brooklyn and Woodbury, New York In 1863 he became librarian of the Long Island historical society, of which he was a founder and director. In 1868-'70 he served in the Brooklyn office of the Metropolitan board of health, and in 1870-'3 he was
a health inspector in the board of health of New York city. In 1873 he was appointed medical superintendent of the State homeopathic asylum for the insane in Middletown, New York, and under his direction the first two buildings were erected and its service was organized. In 1877 he removed to
Dundee, Scotland, to take charge of the Homoeopathic dispensary there, remaining until 1881, when he returned to New York, where he practised until 1888. He then opened a private establishment for the care of mental and nervous diseases at Hill View, New York From 1882 till 1885 he was professor
of mental and nervous diseases in the New York woman's medical college and hospital. Dr. Stiles was an organizer of the Public health association of New York city in 1872, a founder and officer of the Society for promoting the welfare of the insane in New York city, and has lectured on hygiene
and sanitary laws in the New York homoeopathic medical college. He was an organizer of the American anthropological society in 1869, and one of the seven founders of the New York genealogical and biographical society, serving as its president from 1869 until 1873. Williams gave him the degree of
A. M. in 1876. He is the author of numerous memoirs, has annotated and edited several works, and published "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut" (New York, 1859; supplement, Albany, 1863) ; "Monograph on Bundling in America" (Albany, 1861) ;
"Genealogy of the Massachusetts Family of Stiles " (1863): "The Walla-bout Prison-Ship Series" (2 vols., 1865) ; "The Genealogy of the Stranahan and Joselyn Families" (1865) ; and "History of the City of Brooklyn, New York" (3 vols., Brooklyn, 1867-'70).
He edited the "Illustrated History of the County of Kings and City of Brooklyn" (2 vols., 1884), and in part "The Humphreys Family and Genealogy" (1887).